Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-04

houou W suo iist III Drieriy uooiOo.
Mr.. Campbell. l don't understand
what all this about Bates is. What
is it?
Witness. He is speaking of one or
two places that were not of any import.
| ance.
Mr.. Robarts. l say with the excep-
tion OF two precincts, Downey and Santa
Ana.
A. How about Carroll? How about
Richard Egan?
@. Well, San Juan is an insignificant
precinct, is it not!
A. / think Travis sent in about a
dozen names.
Q. From Yorba?
| A. Yes, sir.
Q. Which has a vote of twenty or
thirty, as you say.
| A. He ia not confined to Yorba. He
has right to take registration wherever
he meets them.
| @. Did you know whether he did?
| A. do not know whether he did or
not.
@. At the time that you consulted
with Briefly as to the advisability of his
issuing this notice, why did You not also
notify the Democratic Central Committee
of your action in extending the regis.
tration TO the 9th OF October?
A. had already notified the Demo-
Gratis by sending these notices to the
registry clerks.
@. Then you considered that Stephen
M. White and r. +. Del Vale and W.
s. Waters composed the Democratic
party of this county?
Mr.. Campbell. lie has not said any
thing of the kind.
| Mr.. Robarts. Is that it, sir?
! A. l said l notified them by sending
out these circulars to the registry clerks.
| Q. That is the only way?
| A. As far as that is concerned. it is
well-known fact that the office was
| open all the time from 8 o'clock in the
morning until 5 o'clock at night for reg
istration.
MIR. Robarts. Undoubtedly. We now
offer in evidence, in connection with the
testimony of the witness, the notice
issued by John r. Briefly, Chairman of
the Republican County Committee, con.
testant's Exhibit No. 2.
@. Please look, sir, at this notice
printed, and particularly the printed
portion of it, which is dated October 26,
1856, and say if you consulted Mr..
Briefly as to the advsability of his issu-
ing that. Those indelible pencil marks
/ suppose are to the Democrats to issue
the notices of the same kind.
Mr.. Campbell. This is a very blurred
document.
MIR. Robarts. We only refer to the
printed portion of it, not the part writ
ten in indelible ink.
A. l don't think l was consulted
with regard to this matter, but of course
Mr.. Briefly would probably know when
the registry would close.
Q. By Mr.. Campbell The question
is whether you were consulted about Is.
suing that.
A. l don't recollect of ever having
been consulted about it.
Mr.. Campbell. That is Exhibit what?
Mr.. Robarts. We don't offer it, sir,
if he does not know anything at all
about it.
Witness. There were a Thousand
and one notices sent back and forth by
both parties, as far as that is concerned.
I saw them after they were printed.
Q. By Mr.. Robarts. You were at q
Republican meeting in the Azusa on the
22d of October, were you not?
A. presume I was. was out there;
I don't recollect the date.
@. At that time had your notices
been sent to the clerks, your deputies
out there, as to the extension of time
for registration or enrolment?
A. / think they must have been; l
think they were sent on the 20tb, or not
later than the 2lst. My recollection is
that they were sent on the 20ta.
Q. Did you post, notice, or post a
copy of the register at any public place
in the courthouse at any time?
A. There were four registers kept on
the desk in the courthouse, that is, on
the desk on the right as you go in; and
on nearly all the tables registers were
scattered. So far as. tacking any up.
don't recollect of tacking any up.
@ During what time, or when did
you first put it up or have them on this
table?
A. AS soon as they were printed.
Q. When was that, sir?
A. Well, can't-I can't tell without
referring to the books. l have the
dates on which the several registers
were sent out, and the dates when they
We're received.
@ Do you remember the date of the
certificate that you placed at the end of
the register? 1t was dated October the
2Sth.
A. There were different dates. There
was portion of the register-there was
one date upon
Mr.. Campbell. We had better have
the registers themselves.
Witness. I think there were three
different dates; one upon the original,
and then the supplement. think there
were two or three supplements printed,
and each certificate shows for itself the
date upon it.
@. By Mr.. Robarts. Well, after the
first portion of the register was printed
did You have it posted in conspicuous
place about the courthouse?
A. Well, they were on the desks in
the building as fast as we received
them.
@. As fast as you received them!
| A. Yes, sir.
@. They were exclusively in your
office?
A. No sir, they were not.
Q. In what other Office were they?
| A. The Democratic Central Commit.
tee and the Republican Central Commit.
tee had the sheets rs fast as they
came out from the press. and delivered
to them, think, twenty-five copies to
each Committee, as fast as they were
printed.
@. Did you not have the copy, the
printed copy OF the Great Register in
your Office for twenty.four hours before
you allowed the Democratic Central
Committee to have it?
A. Printed copy?
@. Yes, sir.
A. I don't think so. There was
some talk in regard to getting the copy
as fast as it was printed, and the printer
said there would be some trouble, and I